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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Inflation Theory
If a thing was a hyper sphere, it's very small, not a point. How can that thing be infinite? Well, it expands exponentially. That's what the inflation theory is all about. But in an exponentially expanding universe, if you actually try to make this measurement, you send light out to try to see it curve back around and hit you in the back of the head. If it's next potentially expanding universe, there amount of space remaining to be traversed is always a bigger and bigger quantity. So observationally or operationally, it can be thought of as being influenced.
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